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his school teacher teaches him to swear dead for the sake of religion. This is where the inferiority of adult is shown in the above quotation. It makes him
resigned because he feels that he will have no chance to study the bold red book. Franks inferiority to adults has an effect on his growth, as he compensates for the
feeling by finding out from friends or books he read.
3.1.2.3 Neglect
Neglect is one aspect that makes the individual in inferior state. As Adler points out that the cause of inferiority is a neglected or overly pampered lifestyle.
This usually creates a complex inferior. Abandonment done on children who are in the process of growth will have an impact on the mental that led to the growth
of habits that bad from his behavior. Frank experienced neglect from his family also from the surrounding society because of physic
or behavior that his mother’s family dislikes. Frank is a child who is more often left to do whatever he wants as
long as it does not interfere his mother, rather than notice what and how he played or what he did in playground, such as when his mother asked him to play and not
to go home before dark; My mother tells me all the time, Never, never leave that playground except
to come home. But what am I to do with the twins bawling with the hunger in the pram? I tell Malachy Ill be back in a minute. I make sure no one is
looking, grab a bunch of bananas outside the Italian grocery shop and run down Myrtle Avenue, away from the playground, around the block and back
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This is a neglect that he gets from his mother. She does not want to know what her sons did as long as it does not disturb her. Due to his fear toward his
mother and his compulsion, he eventually stole because his brother did stop crying and felt hungry. Such that neglect makes the child think more of what he
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should think in his childhood, so sometimes it makes him do something wrong. Franks mother always enjoys her deeds. She was talking for hours with his
neighbor, Bridey, about anything and telling Frank to play with his brother outside even though he does not want to play.
“It might be lashing rain out but Mam says, Rain or no, out you go, and shell tell us, If you see your father coming, run in and
tell me” 82. This neglect will make the relationship between child and parent become less harmonious and make the child feel that he is worthless.
In the social life, Frank also had neglect from the people who have higher social class than him. At the night when he would be eighteen, he went to
confession and knock Brother’s house, but he rejected Frank because it was not in a proper spirit of repentance after drink. But Frank wanted in the grace state when
he was sixteen tomorrow and Brother still reject him. “He closes the door in my
face. Another door closed in the face, but Im sixteen tomorrow and I ring again. The brother opens the door, swings me around, kicks my arse and sends me
tripping down the steps” 220. He gets such this neglect for many times and he hope that is the last for him. He feels that there is no opportunity for poor man to
come on the religious leader door. Neglect that he gets from his family or society makes him feel worthless
and inferior of his social life. It influences his mentality in which he does not let any people to ignore him after all. He compensated his inferior in the normal way.
Those inferiority feeling that he feel make him stand and get his better life. He neglect one of the children who still in the normal compensation, so it does not
give the complexities of struggling in the superiority.
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3.2 Frank’s striving for Superiority
According to Alfred Adler, there are many ways to get the superiority. It could be through fictional finalism, social interest, life style, creative power, et
cetera. Each human determines their way to strive for the superiority that they need. Striving for superiority is the effort of human beings to get perfection or
completion through the way that makes them close to the purpose. As in the story, the character strives from the inferior feelings to the superior and success in his
life. This study analyzes Frank’s process to get superiority and success based on the inferior feeling he had then he shapes the dream on the future called fictional
finalism by Adler. In striving for superiority Frank struggle on his life to get what the superior that he wants by deciding fictional finalism on his mind, then he
endeavor to fulfill the needs of his life until he gets the superiority.
3.2.1 Frank’s shaped His Dream
Fictional finalism is a dream which leads people to get the perfection or superiority in their life. Adler stated that people were driven more by the hopes on
the future than what they do in the past. Apparently Adler’s theory could be applied in Frank’s story. Frank is child who has fictional finalism in his mind to
get the superiority and success. His dream about success and better life rises when his family strove very hard to fulfill the necessity because his father spent the
money on the pub. Frank’s mother was always looking for government’s allowance and having a debt on the Italian grocery shop or others to get food
needed. When he looked his mother sit on the kitchen table and cried he would like to become a man soon and help her, as he thought, “I want to get up and tell
